I’ve not seen anything in either Gueye or Ohashi to change my mind. Neither of them offer enough.

The only thing that would interest me would be if he got the boot and was replaced by someone who wanted to win games in any way he could. That wouldn’t be age related, it would be ability driven. This lot are turning us into a youth club.

Sounds like the owners have decided they are only going to give a minimal transfer budget to the manager no matter what incoming transfer fees are. There just isn’t chance of progression under that kind of strict regimen. Exactly the opposite. No manager of any standing will stay under those circumstances. The outlook is so grim. How can the club move forward or progress under these owners? Where is the ambition? I don’t remember the last time I heard anyone at Ewood say anything positive about the future.

Arsenal would have done better defending the corner properly rather than whingeing about Sutton putting pressure on Winterburn. who cares 😂

Well thanks Rudy and thanks Admin. The timing of the poll to coincide with Gestedes interview was absolute perfection. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this site come together so comprehensively before. The Raos and top execs have truly been sussed. Everybody can see your naievity towards how you all believe this path your trodding is in any kind of way, the right way. It isn’t and it never will be. and for the first time you’re being truly called out.

It sounds as though owners/ management are working together on a project to develop the academy lads into saleable assets - but not reinvest that money into the squad. Not in January at least, even if the opportunity of finishing in the play off positions is very much in reach. You can’t build like that. Good players don’t hang around mid or lower table championship clubs. If they get a good offer from elsewhere they’re off. If an opportunity of reaching the play offs arises you simply have to go for it. In fact being as successful as you possibly can should apply every week of every year. Isnt the truth that the owners know nothing about how to run a successful English football club and therefore have no idea how to appoint people that do know. In fact they shouldn’t be involved in football at all.

What they don’t get is that the vast majority of football fans want one thing really from their club. They want to see a club with genuine ambition and determination to fight as hard as they can for success. If a professional football club doesn’t have that, it has no reason to exist. It might as well drop out of the football league and go play amateur football somewhere else. Fans need to believe that their club itself believes it can be successful. If that belief isn’t evident fans will wonder why they should bother at all. That message has to be driven from the top and in 15 years I haven’t seen it. Under this lot I don’t expect to. We might get a few more attempts now to show they’re “trying” but they’re so imbedded in their own depressing vision for the future it will be so difficult to persuade anyone of their honesty. We need a clean sweep.

The only managers who have managed to hang around the club in the last 15 years are those that allude to us punching above our weight. Any manager suggesting that with a bit of backing we could challenge for promotion are gone PDQ.

This is him? From LET. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/14445910.former-blackburn-rovers-defender-ken-taylor-dies-aged-85/

Chilton head hunted him from Gloucestershire where in his two seasons there, relegated them to the second division then finished bottom of that division the next season.

I think so

Best time for me too. Else Bray Newton Clayton England McGrath THEN THIS FORWARD LINE…. Ferguson McEvoy Pickering Douglas Harrison. Fabulous team.

I was very fortunate to see that half back line of Clayton, Woods (then England) and McGrath. It was an absolute privilege to watch all of them. RIP Mick.

We’re talking like bringing in players who fit the managers style is something revolutionary. Isn’t that what every manager ever should have been doing. Its also a bit easier to do when you’ve got some cash to spend and you hit the market early. When you’re last in line and waiting for clubs who have finished their transfer window business to release their players who aren’t needed at that point, it’s almost impossible to bring in players matched to your “plans”.